express vs positive

express

adj
  • Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied. 

  • Truly depicted; exactly resembling. 

  • Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops. 

  • Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type. 

verb
  • To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA. 

  • To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit. 

  • To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk). 

  • To translate messenger RNA into protein. 

adv
  • Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops. 

noun
  • An express office. 

  • That which is sent by an express messenger or message. 

  • A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly. 

  • A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another. 

  • An express rifle. 

  • A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier. 

positive

adj
  • Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright. 

  • Not negative or neutral. 

  • Stated definitively and without qualification. 

  • Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive. 

  • Optimistic. 

  • Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion'). 

  • Overconfident, dogmatic. 

  • Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values. 

  • Of number, greater than zero. 

  • Having more protons than electrons. 

  • HIV positive. 

  • Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better. 

  • Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis. 

  • Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged. 

  • Formally laid down. 

  • Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations. 

  • Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence. 

  • electropositive 

  • Fully assured in opinion. 

  • Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative. 

  • Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish. 

  • basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals. 

noun
  • A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs. 

  • A positive result of a test. 

  • An adjective or adverb in the positive degree. 

  • A favourable point or characteristic. 

  • A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative. 

  • A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual. 

  • Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge. 

  • The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. 

How often have the words express and positive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )